“Americans have got to understand that we are paying present-day retirees with the taxes paid by young workers in America today. And that's a disgrace. It's an absolute disgrace and it's got to be fixed.” TodayAmericaYoungTaxesPaidAbsolutesWorkersFixedDisgracePresent DayAmerica Today Author:John McCain
“I used to think that each phase of life was the end. But now that my view on life is more or less fixed, I believe that change is a great thing. In fact, it's the only real absolute in the world.” ThinkingWorldBelieveRealEndsFactsLife IsUsedI BelieveViewsAbsolutesGreat ThingsFixedPhasesPhases Of Life Author:Philip Johnson
“To awaken to the absolute view is profound and transformative, but to awaken from all fixed points of view is the birth of true non-duality. If emptiness cannot dance, it is not true emptiness. If moonlight does not flood the empty night sky and reflect in every drop of water, on every blade of grass, then you are only looking at your own empty dream.” IfsDoeDreamNightWaterViewsVisionSkyBirthEmptyAbsolutesProfoundPoint Of ViewGrassFixedEmptinessFloodBladesMoonlightDualityNight SkyDrop Of WaterBlades Of Grass Author:Adyashanti
“Absolute peace in our world is an unattainable goal. But it is one towards which we must continue to journey, our eyes fixed on it as a traveller in a desert fixes his eyes on the one guiding star that will lead him to salvation.” WorldEyeStarsPeaceGoalJourneyAbsolutesSalvationDesertFixedHis EyesOur WorldTravellerUnattainableGuiding Stars Author:Aung San Suu Kyi
“When the sacred manifests itself in any hierophany, there is not only a break in the homogeneity of space; there is also a revelation of an absolute reality, opposed to the nonreality of the vast surrounding expanse. The manifestation of the sacred ontologically founds the world. In the homogenous and infinite expanse, in which no point of reference is possible and hence no orientation can be established, the hierophany reveals an absolute fixed point, a center.” WorldRealityFoundSpaceBreakAbsolutesInfiniteSacredFixedManifestationRevelationsNo PointOrientationExpanseHomogeneity Author:Mircea Eliade
“Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.” BelieveIdeasBeliefDangerousUltimateAbsolutesDefinitionsSupremeFixedAcceptableUnconditional Author:Joshua Fernandez
“Absolute freedom is absolute nonsense! We gain freedom in anything through commitment, discipline, and fixed habit.” HabitDisciplineCommitmentGainsAbsolutesFixedNonsenseAbsolute Freedom Author:Richard J. Foster
“The pragmatist turns away from abstraction and insufficiency, from verbal solutions, from bad a priori reasons, from fixed principles, closed systems, and pretended absolutes and origins. He turns toward concreteness and adequacy, towards facts, towards action, and towards power.” ReasonFactsActionTurnsPrinciplesSolutionsAbsolutesFixedAbstractionInsufficiencyAdequacyPragmatists Author:William James
“The idea that somehow "no self, no problem"- I don't exist because I don't have a self- would be a mistaken understanding. However, the selflessness teaching is not that hard to understand. What it means is a type of self that people feel they have, like a fixed, unchanging identity. Either they know they have it, or for some, they feel they need to seek it, and possibly have an experience where they feel like they found something. That type of fixed, unchanging, essential self, or absolute self doesn't exist. That's what "no self" means.” PeopleKnowsNeedsFeelsMeanIdeasSelfHardProblemWould BeFoundUnderstandingTeachingIdentityTypeEssentialsAbsolutesFixedMistakenSelflessnessNo ProblemUnchanging Author:Robert Thurman
“Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. ...Christians whose eyes are fixed on the awfulness of crucifixion are in a special position to understand the awfulness of innocent suffering. The Cross of Christ is God's absolute identification with the weak, the powerless, and the vulnerable, but most of all with unprotected, undefended, innocent suffering.” HumansEyeChristianSufferingChristAnimalSpecialPositionCreaturesResourcesCrossesWeakSightAbsolutesPropertyInnocentVulnerableFixedVegetarianVeganAnimal RightsCommodityPowerlessUtilityIdentificationCrucifixionVegan HealthAwfulness Author:Andrew Linzey
“It is when we try to grapple with another man's intimate need that we perceive how incomprehensible, wavering and misty are the beings that share with us the sight of the stars and the warmth of the sun. It is as if loneliness were a hard and absolute condition of existence; the envelope of flesh and blood on which our eyes are fixed melts before the outstretched hand, and there remains only the capricious, unconsolable and elusive spirit that no eye can follow, no hand can grasp.” IfsMenNeedsTryingHardHandsEyeSpiritStarsExistenceSunBloodShareConditionsLonelinessSightAbsolutesRemainsFleshPerceiveFixedIntimateWarmthAnother ManElusiveEnvelopesFlesh And BloodCapriciousMistyWaveringWarmth Of The Sun Book:Lord Jim Source: Lord Jim
“She was staring at you.’’ ‘‘What can I say? Irresistible.’’ ‘‘Shane, it’s not funny. I just—you should be careful.’’ ‘‘Always am.’’ Which was an absolute lie. Shane’s eyes fixed on hers, and she felt a burst of heat inside that crept up to burn in her cheeks. He smiled slowly. ‘‘Jealous?’’ ‘‘Maybe.’’ ‘‘No reason. I like my ladies with a pulse.” ShouldReasonEyeLyingFeltAbsolutesCarefulStaringFixedHeatNo ReasonJealousBe CarefulCheeksPulseIrresistibleShaneStaring At You Book:Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires Source: Feast of Fools: The Morganville Vampires
“You can’t run away. The past will be only too happy to chase you —- in absolute, complete, and total earnest. Do you know why? Because they’re lonely. The past and memories are very lonely things. I don’t believe in God. Because he doesn’t have a fixed form. The past certainly does exist, even in a world where the future doesn’t have a fixed form. Even if it’s being colored by misunderstandings and delusions, a person’s past can’t be anything but the truth as long as he believes in it. If that’s what you base your actions or your way of life on, isn’t that like being god?” IfsKnowsWorldWayBelievePersonsLongDoeRunningActionPastFormMemoriesLonelyAbsolutesDon't BelieveFixedDelusionDo You KnowBelieve In GodRunning AwayMisunderstandingEarnest Author:Ryohgo Narita
“At the center of the Christian faith is the affirmation that there is a God in the universe who is the ground and essence of all reality. A Being of infinite love and boundless power, God is the creator, sustainer, and conserver of values....In contrast to the ethical relativism of [totalitarianism], Christianity sets forth a system of absolute moral values and affirms that God has placed within the very structure of this universe certain moral principles that are fixed and immutable.” ChristianCertainValuesUniverseMoralChristianityPrinciplesAbsolutesStructureFixedEthicalContrastRelativismMoral ValuesMoral Principles Author:Martin Luther
“There is no god and there is no soul. Hence, there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.” NeedsSoulLawNaturalRoomsEducationMoralTruth IsAbsolutesTraditionalPermanentFixedBuriedCreedsDogmaThere Is No GodPropsNatural LawExcluded Author:John Dewey